Fei Li Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University
I received my Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, New York City, NY. My Ph.D. dissertation was titled "Competitive Queueing Policies for Packet Scheduling". My research interests are: Online, randomized, and approximation algorithm design and analysis Combinatorial optimization for scheduling and networking problems

Teaching:	CS684 Graph Algorithms, Spring 2010
	CS583 Analysis of Algorithms (Graduate Coures), Fall 2009
	CS795 Approximation Algorithms, Fall 2008
	CS795 Online Algorithms, Spring 2008
	CS483 Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Selected Publications: Fei Li Competitive Scheduling of Packets with Hard Deadlines in a Finite Capacity Queue in Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 1062-1070, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009. Fei Li, Jay Sethuraman, and Clifford Stein Better Online Buffer Management in Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pp. 199-208, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7-9, 2007. Fei Li, Jay Sethuraman, and Clifford Stein An Optimal Online Algorithm for Packet Scheduling with Agreeable Deadlines in Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pp. 801-802, Vancouver, Canada, January 23-25, 2005.
Publications Research is support by NSF grant for the project ``Online Scheduling Algorithms for Networked Systems & Applications'' (2009 - 2012).
Students

Contact Information:	Department of Computer Science George Mason University 4400 University Drive MSN 4A5 Fairfax, VA 22030 USA Phone: (703) 993-1540 Email:
Personal:	I am married to Qi Wei.

Last updated: January 8, 2008